Mike Largent

Bessent Admits Trump Tax Scam Offers 'Backdoor for Privatizing Social Security' www.commondreams.org/news/privati...

Tennessee Rep. Justin
Jones ejected from Homeland Security
Secretary's event in
Nashville.

Critics Doubt CBS Claim That Finances—Not Politics—Are Behind 'Late Show' Cancellation | Common Dreams U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren questions CBS' decision to cancel "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," suggesting it was politically motivated. Colbert's criticism of a settlement involving Trump raises c...

Critics Doubt CBS Claim That Finances—Not Politics—Are Behind 'Late Show' Cancellation www.commondreams.org/news/cbs-lat...

Christopher. My first thoughts as well. It may not be, however, if only recipients contact information is accessed. That may not raise to the level of HIPPA privacy violation. You think?

Trump Mocked For Bizarre Denial After Wall St. Journal Reports On His Creepy Birthday Note To Epstein Someone's panicking.

Ooooh, someone's panicking.

ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants "They want to be doing this with no witnesses."

“They don’t want anyone to see how they treat people. They want to be doing this”—their deportations—”with no witnesses.”

RFK Jr. Wants to Overhaul a Vital System That Supports Childhood Immunization The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program stabilizes the nation’s childhood immunization system while paying those harmed by rare side effects. If the program topples, it could threaten access to vaccin...

www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...

BBB? Big Bunch of Bullshit.

At RFK Jr.’s HHS, It’s Not Big Pharma. It’s Big Wellness - Truthdig The pharmaceutical industry has long had outsize influence over government policy. Now wellness influencers are having their way.

The pharmaceutical industry has long had outsize influence over government policy. Now wellness influencers are having their way.

www.truthdig.com/articles/at-...

RFK JR: great work at HHS! Sheesh!
Kennedy and four advisers — three of whom have been tapped for official government roles — earned at least $3.2 million in fees and salaries from their work opposing Big Pharma and promoting wellness in 2022 and 2023, according to a KFF Health News.

The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.

www.propublica.org/article/texa...

C know nuth’n:
The New York Times reported that on July 5, as the floodwaters in Texas began to recede, Noem failed to renew contracts with the four companies staffing FEMA call centers, leading to hundreds of contractors being fired.

California farmworker who fell from greenhouse roof during chaotic ICE raid dies A farmworker who fell from a greenhouse roof during a chaotic ICE raid this week at a California cannabis facility has died.

apnews.com/article/jaim... farmworker who fell from greenhouse roof during chaotic ICE raid dies

If This GOP Conference Is Proof, Trump Is Totally Screwed Over Epstein Attendees at the Turning Point USA conference are slamming Donald Trump over the Jeffrey Epstein case.

If This GOP Conference Is Proof, Trump Is Totally Screwed Over Epstein newrepublic.com/post/197890/... via @newrepublic.com

Most Third-Party Efforts Are Jokes. Musk’s Might Not Be. Here’s Why. He’s not setting his sights on the presidency, and that could make all the difference.

Most Third-Party Efforts Are Jokes. Musk’s Might Not Be. Here’s Why. newrepublic.com/article/1976... via @newrepublic.com

The Epstein Files Anticlimax Is Exposing Trump for Who He Really Is The president promised to take on the corrupt elites. Now his MAGA faithful are starting to wonder if he’s no different.

The Epstein Files Anticlimax Is Exposing Trump for Who He Really Is newrepublic.com/article/1977... via @newrepublic.com

The Arms Race to Kiss Trump’s Ass Has Never Been More Ridiculous The more extravagant it becomes, the more contempt it secretly conveys. Will Trump ever care?

The Arms Race to Kiss Trump’s Ass Has Never Been More Ridiculous newrepublic.com/article/1978... via @newrepublic.com

“The fossil fuel industry has run the biggest and most malevolent propaganda operation the country has ever seen,” “It is defending a $700-plus billion [annual] subsidy” of not being charged for the health and environmental damages caused by burning fossil fuels".
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to allow Florida to enforce a state law that makes it a crime for anyone who entered the United States illegally to enter or remain in the state.

Sad all the way around CW.

Texas Overhauls Anti-Abortion Program That Spent Tens of Millions of Taxpayer Dollars With Little Oversight After a ProPublica and CBS News investigation revealed that Texas’ funding pipeline for anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers is riddled with waste, nonprofits in the program must now provide a detai...

www.propublica.org/article/texa...

What we know about how FEMA officials are failing Texas Its acting administrator is MIA, and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem wants the agency eliminated.

What we know about how FEMA officials are failing Texas www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Petulant idiot:
Where's your horse Secretary? Your boat? Your bravado?
Kristi Noem, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) oversees FEMA. Shame on you "laser-focused" liar as we mourn for Texas.

FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson has no disaster management experience is, according to multiple reports, nowhere to be found, despite being federally mandated to be responsible for providing national leadership in preparation for, and in response to natural disasters. He is MIA

Wealth and Mortality in the United States and Europe | NEJM To the Editor: In their Special Article regarding the association between wealth and mortality in the United States and Europe, Machado and colleagues (April 3 issue)1 found that greater wealth was...

Wealth and Mortality in the United States and Europe | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

BS straight up! PB is straight up BS!

ICE’s existing annual budget has been around $8 billion, so $30 billion is nearly quadruple. As AOC noted, it will make ICE into a huge police force that will indeed be larger than the FBI ($11.3 billion), the Bureau of Prisons ($9 billion),Drug Enforcement Administration ($3.3 billion) combined.

Typical MO for the MF (Orange guy)

E. Jean Carroll Speaks—and She’s Throwing Darts All Across Trumpworld Joe Tacopina was “disgusting.” Alina Habba, “deliciously arrogant.” Plus, what she’ll do with all that money—if Trump ever pays it.

E. Jean Carroll Speaks—and She’s Throwing Darts All Across Trumpworld newrepublic.com/article/1974... via @newrepublic.com

Trump Dumping Musk Is Not Enough to Stop the Wreckage of the Federal Government Even if Trump splits with Musk, the tech bro’s strategy of wrecking institutions and pushing legal limits will live on.

Trump Dumping Musk Is Not Enough to Stop the Wreckage of the Federal Government truthout.org/articles/tru...